Anthony Michael Hall, Tracy Morgan, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Amy Poehler. And yet for the frat pack, the art of kidding has bloomed into a multi-million dollar enterprise - and is therefore deadly serious. Special Mention: Along with Eddie Murphy, there are others who were on. We'd have super-powers and drive out in our super-comedy machines.' Of course, Black was only kidding. 'We would drive in and talk about domination of world comedy. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. 'I really wish we had a secret headquarters where there was a secret bat-cave inside the Hollywood sign,' Jack Black mused recently. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. This close-knit group of performers and film-makers includes Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Seth Rogen, Jack Black, Steve Carell and Judd Apatow - a former room-mate of Adam Sandler who cut his teeth scripting The Larry Sanders Show. Today, Stiller is regarded as the lynchpin of what the US media refers to as 'the frat pack'. The latter picture also served as a springboard for its star, Ben Stiller. American Pie (by the Weitz brothers) and There's Something About Mary (from the Farrellys) overhauled the teen romp for the emergent 'kidult' demographic, balancing scatological comedy with rounded, sympathetic characters and pointed the way ahead. But the most significant development in 1990s film comedy came courtesy of two sibling writer-director teams. Another SNL graduate, Adam Sandler, broke on to the Hollywood A-list by effectively disregarding the ZAZ rulebook and pitching himself as a modern-day Jerry Lewis. Having road-tested Wayne's World on the show, comic Mike Myers spun out the amateurish antics of two smalltown metal-heads into a phenomenally successful 1992 movie, and later devised the still more lucrative Austin Powers franchise. The Saturday Night Live effect continued right into the 1990s. Ironically, the film appeared to flummox some contemporary viewers, who took it at face value and assumed that, yes, the amp really did go up to 11.

Film-maker John Hughes effectively cornered the teen market with The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, while Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean patented the spoof documentary with 1984's This Is Spinal Tap. Over in New York, NBC's Saturday Night Live provided a fertile tide-pool for such emerging stand-ups as Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, John Belushi and (most alarmingly) Chevy Chase. Not that ZAZ had the 1980s comedy scene all to themselves.

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